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Word: snowbeard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
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Snowboard's Saga. That map-or drawings purporting to be the map-has been appearing, disappearing and reappearing ever since. In the 1870s a German prospector, Jacob ("Dutchman") Waltz, called "Snowbeard" by the Indians, killed at least five men in getting his hands on the map. For years afterward, Waltz lived with a quadroon girl in an adobe hut in Phoenix, periodically slipped into the crags of Superstition Mountain to replenish his supply of nuggets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARIZONA: Search for Last Dutchman's | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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